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News24 reports that the SA Policing Union (SAPU) says attacks on police offers are "crimes against the state" and it wants President Cyril Ramaphosa to declare them acts of treason.
The police trade union condemned the latest attack, in which police officers were held hostage at a Limpopo police station. A group of armed men stormed into the Malamulele police station at around 23:00 on Sunday and held officers at gunpoint in the Community Service Centre (CSC). SAPU spokesperson Lesiba Thobakgale reacted: “It is clear that the attacks on police stations have become a norm to criminals as they are committing crime without hesitation.” The union referred to two other incidents, namely the theft of firearms and ammunition from a police station in the Northern Cape in August, and an attack in October on the Sir Lowry's satellite police station in the Western Cape. Thobakgale went on to say: "Taking into consideration the high rate of police station attacks, we are calling on the president to join this call we have been long making and [to] also declare police station attacks treason, as firearms and ammunition taken from these attacks are used to violate and kill the police and members of society." On Monday, fellow police force union Popcru said it was enraged by the theft of arms and ammunition from police officers.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Nicole McCain at News24
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